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Gemini 2.0 Flash vs GPT-5 Nano

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Nano wins 11 of 12 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · math.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5 Nanoknowledge·GPT-5 Nanomath·GPT-5 Nanolanguage·GPT-5 Nanocoding·GPT-5 Nano
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 2.0 Flash
#101 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5 Nano
#114 by perf·no signal
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Best value
1.0x better value than Gemini 2.0 Flash
Gemini 2.0 Flash
192.0 pts/$
$0.25/M
GPT-5 Nano
201.3 pts/$
$0.23/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 2.0 FlashGPT-5 Nano
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5 Nano leads by +1.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
1.3
GPT-5 Nano
2.6
Fiction.LiveBench
Gemini 2.0 Flash leads by +16.7
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
61.1
GPT-5 Nano
44.4
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5 Nano leads by +6.6
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
1.7
GPT-5 Nano
8.3
GPQA diamond
GPT-5 Nano leads by +7.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
52.2
GPT-5 Nano
59.3
HELM · GPQA
GPT-5 Nano leads by +12.3
Gemini 2.0 Flash
55.6
GPT-5 Nano
67.9
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5 Nano leads by +9.1
Gemini 2.0 Flash
84.1
GPT-5 Nano
93.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
GPT-5 Nano leads by +4.1
Gemini 2.0 Flash
73.7
GPT-5 Nano
77.8
HELM · Omni-MATH
GPT-5 Nano leads by +8.8
Gemini 2.0 Flash
45.9
GPT-5 Nano
54.7
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5 Nano leads by +0.6
Gemini 2.0 Flash
80.0
GPT-5 Nano
80.6
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Nano leads by +13.1
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
82.2
GPT-5 Nano
95.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5 Nano leads by +50.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
31.0
GPT-5 Nano
81.1
WeirdML
GPT-5 Nano leads by +12.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
25.8
GPT-5 Nano
38.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 FlashGPT-5 Nano
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
1.32.6
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
61.144.4
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
1.78.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
52.259.3
HELM · GPQA
55.667.9
HELM · IFEval
84.193.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
73.777.8
HELM · Omni-MATH
45.954.7
HELM · WildBench
80.080.6
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
82.295.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
31.081.1
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
25.838.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.0 Flash$0.10$0.401.0M tokens (~500 books)$1.75
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Nano$0.05$0.40400K tokens (~200 books)$1.38